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  • Levy turns new leaf with GOP

    Voter dissatisfaction has led to a tidal shift in Levy County politics as the Board of County Commissioners has two firsts: Republicans elected to the board and a majority of seats in Republican hands.
    Republicans Ryan Bell and Chad “Cracker” Johnson, both of Chiefland, defeated their Democrat incumbents.

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  • Streets and utilities project update

    For the next two weeks, the contractor will be installing
    water mains and lines using a method referred to as directional
    drilling. This method is used where open trench construction
    would be damaging to driveways, infrastructure,
    heritage trees, etc. Directional drilling requires only two
    small trenches - one at each end of the section that is being
    drilled.
    The depth of the directional drilling is controlled by the
    drilling operator, allowing the new line to be installed with

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  • $51.935 million in bonds allocated for TriCounty Hospital

    The proposed Tri-County Hospital for Chiefland has won almost $52 million of the $70 million in economic stimulus bond money it requested from the state's pool of federal Economic Recovery Zone Bonds approved by Congress in 2009.

    The Levy County Board of Commissioners was notified Thursday by the state Division of Bond Finance that it will receive $51.935 million of the bond money. And as more money comes into the bond pool — returned by municiaplities and county governments that cannot or are unable to use the money — more will flow to the hospital.

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  • Voters head to the polls

    The choice of who will lead Levy
    County, the state of Florida and the
    U.S. Congress all comes down to one
    person on Tuesday: the voter.
    Balloting will take place in 14
    polling locations among the county’s
    20 precincts from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on
    Tuesday in Levy County as voters
    across the nation go to the polls to cast
    their ballots in the mid-term elections.
    Early voting is underway at the
    Supervisor of Elections office at 421
    S. Court St, Bronson from 8:30 a.m. to

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  • Dysentery hits raccoons on Cedar Key

    Police Chief Virgil Sandlin said in the past week his
    department has received several calls regarding raccoons
    that were displaying odd symptoms and ultimately had to be
    dispatched.
    Four raccoons were seen in the daylight acting oddly in
    the general area of Hodges and Merrell Avenues.
    Because they are nocturnal animals indicated a problem,
    but in addition they also displayed balance problems —
    walking, falling over, trying to walk again, falling again and
    generally acting groggy and disoriented.

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  • Bride's murder means life in prison for groom

    A jury took three hours to decide that newlywed Felicia Fine of Cedar Key was murdered by her husband, Charles Edwin Duke.

    The decision on Friday came one week short of the first anniversary of Fine's death on Nov. 4, 2009, at the Rosewood home she shared with Duke and his friend Justin White.

    Duke was also convicted of the false imprisonment of White for forcing the roommate to accompany him to a popular mud bogging site near Bronson where he negotiated White's release to law enforcement officers.

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  • County selling limestone dragline

    Levy County will be putting its dragline
    up for sale, preferring to use another piece of
    equipment to mine and load limestone from
    the Gulf Hammock Pit for road construction.
    The Board of Commissioners on Tuesday
    approved the sale at the request of Road
    Department Administrative Superintendent
    Bruce Greenlee. who said the dragline is no
    longer needed for the county's limerock mining
    operation. "We can only mine to 30 feet
    and we need to get rid of this," he said.

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  • New Recycling and Trash Pickup Schedule

    Mondays
    Trash and Recyling
    2nd & 4th Tuesdays
    Yard Waste
    2nd Tuesday of the month
    Bulk Items

     

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  • Drug bust nets 4 arrests, plus bonus

    Four Cedar Key residents and a man from Lake City were
    arrested on Tuesday after a three-month investigation of drug
    sales in Cedar Key by the Levy County Sheriff's Office.
    Those arrested on drug charges are Richard Lee
    Cantlebarry 45, Geneva F. Harris, 58, Jonathan N.
    Thompson, 30, and Shannon Lynn Random, 41, all of Cedar
    Key
    Drug agents simultaneously served two search warrantsin the early morning operation that began with a complaint
    to officers that the suspects were selling pills from a
    residence.

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  • Commission keeps meeting short ‘n’ sweet

    About a dozen audience members attended a short, efficient
    meeting Tuesday evening. The format was slightly different
    — with Interim City Administrator Greg Lang taking
    the lead presenting agenda items. Commissioner Gene
    Hodges was absent due to a scheduling conflict.
    In the good news category, the Governor’s Office has
    finally signed the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block
    Grant, allowing the city to move forward with upgrading
    several city-owned buildings. Police Chief Virgil Sandlin

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